Norwich University's online MBA students outperform 70-95% of traditional
MBA students across the nation

Educational
Testing Services (ETS), the largest testing organization in the world,
chose Norwich University's MBA
program as its sole online program test site for the development of
the online version of its nationally publicized MBA Field Test. ETS is
the provider of the SAT, GMAT, GRE, CLEP, TOEFL, and other major exams.

Norwich University's MBA students recently took the Field Test in place
of their normal program-end comprehensive exam. The Field Test is administered
to students enrolled in over fifty MBA programs nationwide - all traditional,
face-to-face programs, with the exception of Norwich. The results are
in, and Norwich MBA students are outperforming 70-95% of traditional MBA
students as determined by their scores on the ETS exam. Norwich students
scored better than 95% of all students tested in Management, 85% of all
students tested in Accounting, and 70% of all students tested in Finance,
Marketing, and Strategy.

According to Dr. Fred Snow, vice president and dean of online graduate
programs at Norwich, the results will most likely have significant repercussions
in the education industry in the next year, sparking more debate about
the efficacy of online environments.

"Such debate is certainly in keeping with the spirit of innovation
that Partridge brought to the national education system back in 1819,"
said Snow.

In general, studies have shown that online learning produces about the
same level of outcomes as in-class learning, but in less time.

The MBA Field Test is an outcomes assessment exam designed to measure
students' academic achievement, critical thinking, and reasoning in the
subject field. In addition, institutions use the tests to assess their
own educational outcomes and to evaluate the curricula of their major
programs. And finally, the ETS MBA provides students and employers with
a measure of their own level of achievement within a field of study compared
to national data. It seeks to answer the question: Which programs are
really delivering what they say they do?

"The fact that ETS chose Norwich as the testing site for their online
education exam is a tribute to the visibility and respect that our program
has in the online industry," Snow said. "And to have the results
turn out as well as they did is a tribute to our students, instructors,
curriculum and delivery system."

Last August, sixty-three members of the first Online MBA graduating class
received their masters' degrees. Currently there are 214 MBA students
enrolled nationwide.